Improvement in clasps for albums



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHNO. KOCH, JR, OF BERLIN, PRUSSIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLASPS FOR ALBUMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,668, dated April 2'2, 1879; application filed February 17, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN CASPER KocH, J r., residing in Berlin, Prussia, have invented an Improvement in Clasps for Albums, Books, 820., of which the following is a'specitication'.

The object of this invention is to obtain durability, strength, and neatness. 1 make use of a wire clasp, connected at one side by an eye to the sheet-metal clip upon the edge of the cover; and'there is a stud upon the wire clasp that enters an eye upon the sheetmetal clip at the edge of the other cover. By this construction the clasp does not project beyond the edges of the book-cover; hence it is not liable to injury, and the projecting hinges and studs usually employed in album-clasps are dispensed with.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the clasp, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

The covers a I) of the album or other book are of any usual character, and upon these the trough-shaped sheet-metal clips 0 d are applied and compressed, so as to grasp the edges of the book-covers, and they are secured by rivets or pins at e, as usual.

An eye, 0, is soldered or otherwise fastened to the clip 0 at the center thereof, and through this is passed the wire of the clasp f, so that said wire clasp can be turned in said eye as a pivot. The pin or stud h, at the opposite side of the clasp f to the eye 0, is adapted to be passed into the eye r upon the face of the clip (I. This clasp sits between the covers, and is not in the way in handling the book, and it is neat, strong, and durable.

I claim as my invention The wire clasp f, provided with the pin, and connected by the eye 0 to the clip 0 at one edge of the book, in combination with the eye 4 upon the clip 11, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN CASPER KOCH, JR.

Witnesses:

EDWARD P. MAGLEAN, HEnt/IANN KREISMANN. 

